Books I was required to read, thought I would hate, and ended up really enjoying

Submitted by stringdm on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:57
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  • 1984 -- George Orwell
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain
  • As I Lay Dying -- William Faulkner
  • Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
  • Catch 22 -- Joseph Heller
  • Cyrano de Bergerac -- Edmond Rostand
  • The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad
  • Howard's End -- E. M. Forrester
  • Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
  • Light in August -- William Faulkner
  • Madame Bovary -- Gustav Flaubert
  • The Mahabarata -- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
  • A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens
  • To the Lighthouse -- Virginia Woolf
kldutch07/13/1999

Please tell me what you so loved about "The Great Gatsby." So many people have enjoyed that book but i did not.

07/25/1999

_Invisible Man_ was written by Ralph Ellison.

10/28/1999

I was required to read A Separate Peace and Lord of the Flies, two books I didnt figure I would enjoy but ended up really liking.